People in Zimbabwe are voting in the country's presidential election. This is what key figures and voters have to say about how the vote is going.

President Mugabe on the vote's outcome

"I will accept it, I will more than accept it,
because I will have won."

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai

"Zanu-PF is now engaged in a last-ditch effort to stop
people from voting it out of power by ensuring that the voting
process in MDC strongholds is slowed down."

Kare Vollan, head of Norway's election observers

"There have been queues of thousands of people waiting outside for many hours and with the speed that they started today it is not possible to process all those voters over two days."

Information Minister
Jonathan Moyo

"We should not think that Harare is Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe
is Harare. Suggestions that there is a massive turnout in
Harare... are really pictures painted by people with creative
imaginations."

Peter
Chiriseri, Harare voter

"It is not fair. Voting is not a crime. We are not happy at
all. All these people are Zimbabweans
and should be allowed to choose their leaders."

Dennis Musodzi who spent a day and night at a Harare polling station

"I am prepared to spend another day and night here, and I am not making secret what I am here for. I am waiting to vote for Tsvangirai because I am sick and tired of Mugabe."

Aleck Marange, Zanu-PF supporter

"Everything at State House has the signature of our
leader scrawled all over it, and no amount of wiping
will delete it"

Ian Smith, former prime minister of what was then Rhodesia

"All of the reports we have had indicate that the people say they want to change. So we have a change, then once again this could be one of the greatest countries in the world, instead of being what it is now, which is despised by the rest of the world."

Edson, who was waiting to vote in Mbare

"If it is safe to stay, I will stay, but if it is not safe to
stay, I will go. People are afraid (of being) attacked because there are no lights outside."